FINE ARTS

The Department of Fine Arts offers a four year Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts. Many graduates of the Department of Fine Arts at the NCA have found fame and recognition in Pakistan and internationally .

The Department of Fine Arts is the foremost programme for artistic and intellectual discourse and activity in the country. It involves leading professionals to contribute through their teaching/ presence and provides freedom/venue to students for developing into successful creative individuals with independent aesthetic choices. It aims that students should have academic skill, analytical ability and vision to create works of art. It trains students, at the end of their course, in becoming practitioners with meaningful understanding of tradition and information of the contemporary.

To attain this, the Department of Fine Arts offers a range of courses, which include studio and theory. Divided into Majors of four different disciplines: Painting, Printmaking & Digital Media, Sculpture and Miniature Painting; along with Studio Drawing, Studio Electives, and Fine Art Seminar.

Each student of Fine Arts, in the 2nd Year is introduced to all 4 Major subjects, before choosing one to pursue in 3rd and 4th years. During this period, Studio Drawing and Fine Art Seminar contribute towards developing an individual approach.

The Department of Fine Arts, in accordance to the vision of NCA, facilitates students to enrol in Elective Courses, offered by the Department as well as from other departments of the institution. Recognizing the need for a multi-disciplinary pedagogy, the programme is structured to encourage exposure and experience beyond a student’s selected course of studies/Major Subject.

The Painting Programme introduces students to a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, water colour, mix-media and tempera. Students are encouraged to articulate their pictorial ideas on a variety of surfaces employing a range of techniques and mediums.

The Printmaking & Digital Media Programme combines both traditional and contemporary processes of Printmaking pursuing different methods of printing, usually on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal and other surfaces, working with special tools, presses and acid.

This programme encourages use of traditional techniques alongside new ways of looking at the constantly changing world of our electronic digital age. All intaglio techniques of drypoint, etching, engraving, photoetching and aquatint, as well as planographic techniques of offset and direct method lithography, relief printing processes like woodcut and linocut, silkscreen and digital printmaking are tough. Digital Media refers to images created digitally on paper and other surfaces, using a wide variety of computer software.

The creative opportunity offered by this program is hugely diverse and exciting, allowing the students to choose and combine the techniques that best suit them.

In this course, students are taught the skills and traditional techniques of miniature painting. They are encouraged to develop an awareness and sensibility of contemporary practices of this art form. They learn the making of wasli (traditional paper), handmade brushes, and preparation of colours. The use of the traditional along with the contemporary approaches expand the vision of students and equip them with technical possibilities.

Sculpture as a medium has moved from making three dimensional objects to installations, videos, nontangible materials accessed through the sense of touch, taste, sound and light. The multi dimensionality of this process links with technology and materials which are traditional as well as contemporary. Students are encouraged to explore materials and techniques available in their surrounding so they can experiment with wide range of ideas, images and techniques and open up new frontiers of expression.

Foundation Semesters

1st Semester

2nd Semester

3rd Semester

4th Semester

5th Semester

6th Semester

7th Semester

8th Semester

Thesis 15 credits

Elective Courses

From 3rd semester onwards, a student will be able to choose elective courses from within his/her department and from other departments with the help of assigned advisor. Each Elective Course will be of 2 credit hours.